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Definition of Mount Everest : a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world. Nepali Name : Sagarmatha (which means Goddess of the sky) Tibetan Name Chomolungma (which means mother Goddess of the Universe) Height : 8848 meters or 29,029 ft Location : On the border between Nepal and Tibet, where all of the worlds 14 Eight thousand meter peaks are found. Longitude 86º55'40' E Latitude latitude 270 45' N and 280 0' N and longitude 800 30' E and 870 0' E in the Solukhumbhu District of Sagarmatha Zone of the kingdom of Nepal Local People : Sherpas and Tibetan

Summit Record Holders: Longest Stay on top : Babu Chiri Sherpa, who stayed at the summit for twenty one and half hours. First Climbers : Tenzing Norgay from Nepal and Sir Edmund Percival Hillary from New Zealand, on 5/29/1953 via the South-East Ridge Route First Nepali Women to Climb : Pasang Llamu Sherpa, on April 22nd, 1993 One of the best climbers : Nepali, Apa Sherpa, climbed Everest 11 times. Fastest Ascent Babu Chhiri Sherpa on June 21 2000, ascent from south side

Hans Kammerlander May 24,1996, ascent from north side Youngest Climber : Nepali, Temba Tsheri Age 15 on May 22, 2001 First Women Climber : In 1975 - The first woman to summit Everest was Junko Tabei, a Japanese, who reached the summit via the South-East Ridge route. Oldest Person to Climb : A Nepali, age 76, Mr. Min Bahadur Sherchan of Nepal

Second Rupper Up:

was a 71 Year Old Japanese Katsusuke Yanagisawa, a teacher by profession. Oldest Women to Climb : Anna Czerwinska May 22, 2000 Largest Group to reach the summit : 50 people on May 2002 First Couple to ever get married on the summit : Nepalese Mona Mulepati and Pem Dorje Sherpa on May 30th 2005 Number of Mount Everest Climbers So Far : About 1,500 men and women from 64 nations
it's about 29,035 ft tall AND is about 60 MILLION YEARS OLD!

Mount Everest is the one of the only mountains that reach so high into the atmosphere that it is not sustainable to live there. Mount Everest was climbed, all the way to the summit, by two people without supplement oxygen in 1978. Mount Everest holds a record of 200 deaths by weather and climate as well.
Highest Mountain First climbed by Edmund Hilary and Sherpa Tenzing in May 1953

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